NASA has tested a kind of super-fridge that may hold the key to any future crewed mission to Mars. Without the new cryogenic ...

On Monday, NASA announced that Makenzie Lystrup will leave her post as director of the Goddard Space Flight Center on Friday, ...

Harmful cuts” jeopardize the agency’s mission, more than 280 current and former personnel contend in a scathing dissent.

With the FAA’s recent approval of SpaceX’s new splashdown area, the company will be allowed to litter larger regions of the ...

Interestingly, Tikhonravov’s dream of a Soviet mission to Mars was based on former Nazi rocket scientist-turned-American rocket scientist, Wernher Von Braun, who had his own “ Mars Project ” that ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

The most complex parachute system to ever deploy on Mars has successfully slowed down an ExoMars mock-up landing platform for ...

The Bosumtwi impact crater in Ghana is different, however. It is well preserved (not deeply eroded or buried under sediments) ...

When we picture Mars today, we see a cold, lifeless desert, battered by dust storms and cosmic radiation. But billions of years ago, the Red Planet told a very different story. Mars was once a warm, ...

No one doubts that rocket tests mean failures, but the question for Starship is this: Is it just having extended teething ...

About 20 miles north of Pittsburgh, the charming borough of Mars has fully embraced its planetary namesake with an out-of-this-world monument that makes other town squares look downright mundane by ...

For decades, scientists have puzzled over why Earth stayed warm and alive while Mars turned cold and dry. Both planets began ...